5) Aliasing is an effect on any pixel devices, where diagonal and curved lines are displayed as a series of little horizontal and vertical lines. Anti-aliasing, is the name for techniques designed to reduce or eliminate this effect, by shading the pixels along the borders of graphical elements.

6) Google Web Fonts and Adobe Typekit provide free – and paid fronts that are safe and easy to use and trustworthy for web sites to user, this wasn’t the case before Google Web Fonts and Adobe Typekit when the range of safe trustworthy list of fonts were small.

Design | Learning Task 13 | Poster Design

Typeface: Vast Shadow. Designer: Sorkin Type Co. History and character: Vast is a Victorian slab serif advertising type. Vast has a feeling of sturdy solidity combined with just a little bit of refinement. Because Vast Shadow has a thin shadow that won’t display well at small sizes we recommend that you use it from 32px and larger…being created in 2013, Vast shadow has very little history.

The Facebook page exhibits The Gutenberg theory of flow. The Title “Facebook” is situated near the left hand side, and is in large bold text. with the users eye Flowing diagonally rightwards to the bottom right hand corner showing a bold and large sign up title. The amount of eye catching images are limited to the centre of the page. The use of grid is very evident being a news site.